Thursday, August 19, 2021

Question regarding traceroute/tracert - denied traffic

I spent a good amount of time looking for the answer to this specific question but it was not clear to me. maybe someone can answer:

When using traceroute/tracert, if I am unable to reach my destination and it appears my traffic is being dropped/denied along the way, is the last IP address shown in the output the device that dropped/denied my traffic or the last device that let the traffic pass? I presume it is the latter as the device that drops/denies would not send a response (and not have its IP logged) but I just wanted to verify as that has different implications (the latter being much less useful).



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